When Karen Stokholm was born on 11 January 1843, in Vestervig, Refs, Thisted, Denmark, her father, Niels Juelby Stokholm, was 34 and her mother, Karen Marie Breinholt, was 24. She married Andreas Carl Eske Bendixsen on 27 March 1866, in Vestervig, Vestervig, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Ydby, Refs, Thisted, Denmark in 1880 and Hundborg, Thisted, Denmark in 1916. She died in 1919, in Thisted, Hundborg, Thisted, Denmark, at the age of 76.
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Americanized form of Danish Stokholm: habitational name from a place or farm so named, a compound of stok ‘beam, log’ and holm ‘islet’, denoting an islet with trees or referring to the oblong size of an islet.
Americanized form of Norwegian Stokholm: habitational name from a farm named after Stockholm in Sweden and also from an altered form of the farm name Skotholmen in Hordaland, from skot (related to skyta ‘shoot’, denoting a land formation that juts out) + holme ‘islet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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